MARC is a community cloud where participants share/contribute infrastructure and share the benefits of cloud computing. Current MARC participants include:
- Mid-Atlantic Crossroads
- University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute / East
- Johns Hopkins University
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Cloud Services: Platform as a Service
- Deliver a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service
- Similar to what Google and Amazon offer
- Delivers computer infrastructure (virtualized platform) as a service
- Buy/Lease compute, servers, software, storage, etc.
- Deploy applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software
MARC Architecture
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MAX’s Current Research Initiatives
- GENI and OpenFlow Infrastructure
- MAX GENI Aggregate Manager Development in Collaboration with ISI
- Collaborative Research on Optical Layer Virtualization and 4D Control Plane with GWU and UVA
- 100G Research Network Upgrade and Testing
- 100G Connectivity to the JHU NSF-Funded Data Scope Management
- Dynamic Network Systems (DYNES)
- Mid-Atlantic Research Cloud (MARC)
